I didn't say it wasn't, i just said the cards i suggested would be better in a games system and they would. They do physx as seen in the youtube vids. ATI = no physx. If it's mainly games you want to do best then the 4870 just dosn't cut it.
Agreed. It might be worth in investing in either nvidia card he suggested as it has great extra features that you don't get with ATI. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143140 Look, Batman comes free
Using various recommendations provided here and your desire to possibly go crossfire at some stage I would be looking at something like this. The case and hard drive you listed. AMD 955BE MSI 790GX G65 HIS 4890 4Gb OCZ AMD edition 1600mhz ram. Corsair 750TX 750w psu All this comes to $847.93 and there are some rebates thrown in as well which makes it cheaper still. Going this route allows you to have a better PSU and GPU.
Why do you consider the Asus to be the better board?? CustomPc did a motherboard labs test last issue and all 3 MSI boards came out on top and all three won recommendation awards. MSI G65 board still stands as far as I'm concerned.
ASUS motherboard should be sold with the low-range 60$ motherboard. Their warranty service is abysmal for the price you pay, and they break with air contact. Just now, my 6month replacement now freezes my system is I connect anything with 2 of 8 USB ports, or an external HDD on the back eSATA ports. It's out of warranty now, as a replacement refurbished super dusty and scratch that you get doesn't get a new warranty on, but continues the new one. I know no one who had a good experience with 2006+ produced ASUS motherboard.
You call PhysX (aka a few random useless features forcefully put into less than five games) "great extra features"?
It's actually implement more places than what you think. Nvidia has a largest market share in it's target market, so there are no real reason why not use it. You also probably don't notice it if you have a ATI card, because the gaem obviously is not make items in the game that require physics just not happen, it uses it's own engine like it did before Nvidia PhysiX. The advantage is the performance gain. Your statement was true only before Nvidia purchased and include PhysX.
